Pi Hole

A black hole for Internet advertisements
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Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware

The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software.

  • Easy-to-install: our dialogs walk you through the simple installation process in less than ten minutes
  • Resolute: content is blocked in non-browser locations, such as ad-laden mobile apps and smart TVs
  • Responsive: seamlessly speeds up the feel of everyday browsing by caching DNS queries
  • Lightweight: runs smoothly with minimal hardware and software requirements
  • Robust: a command-line interface that is quality assured for interoperability
  • Insightful: a beautiful responsive Web Interface dashboard to view and control your Pi-hole
  • Versatile: can optionally function as a DHCP server, ensuring all your devices are protected automatically
  • Scalable: capable of handling hundreds of millions of queries when installed on server-grade hardware
  • Modern: blocks ads over both IPv4 and IPv6
  • Free: open source software that helps ensure you are the sole person in control of your privacy

One-Step Automated Install

Those who want to get started quickly and conveniently may install Pi-hole using the following command:

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

Alternative Install Methods

Piping to bash is controversial, as it prevents you from reading code that is about to run on your system. Therefore, we provide these alternative installation methods which allow code review before installation:

Method 1: Clone our repository and run

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole.git Pi-hole
cd "Pi-hole/automated install/"
sudo bash basic-install.sh

Method 2: Manually download the installer and run

wget -O basic-install.sh https://install.pi-hole.net
sudo bash basic-install.sh

Method 3: Using Docker to deploy Pi-hole

Please refer to the Pi-hole docker repo to use the Official Docker Images.

Post-install: Make your network take advantage of Pi-hole

Once the installer has been run, you will need to configure your router to have DHCP clients use Pi-hole as their DNS server. This router configuration will ensure that all devices connecting to your network will have content blocked without any further intervention.

If your router does not support setting the DNS server, you can use Pi-hole's built-in DHCP server; be sure to disable DHCP on your router first (if it has that feature available).

As a last resort, you can manually set each device to use Pi-hole as their DNS server.


Pi-hole is free but powered by your support

There are many reoccurring costs involved with maintaining free, open-source, and privacy-respecting software; expenses which our volunteer developers pitch in to cover out-of-pocket. This is just one example of how strongly we feel about our software and the importance of keeping it maintained.

Make no mistake: your support is absolutely vital to help keep us innovating!

Donations

Donating using our Sponsor Button is extremely helpful in offsetting a portion of our monthly expenses:

Alternative support

If you'd rather not donate (which is okay!), there are other ways you can help support us:

Contributing via GitHub

We welcome everyone to contribute to issue reports, suggest new features, and create pull requests.

If you have something to add - anything from a typo through to a whole new feature, we're happy to check it out! Just make sure to fill out our template when submitting your request; the questions it asks will help the volunteers quickly understand what you're aiming to achieve.

You'll find that the install script and the debug script have an abundance of comments, which will help you better understand how Pi-hole works. They're also a valuable resource to those who want to learn how to write scripts or code a program! We encourage anyone who likes to tinker to read through it and submit a pull request for us to review.


Getting in touch with us

While we are primarily reachable on our Discourse User Forum, we can also be found on various social media outlets.

Please be sure to check the FAQs before starting a new discussion, as we do not have the spare time to reply to every request for assistance.


Breakdown of Features

Faster-than-light Engine

FTLDNS is a lightweight, purpose-built daemon used to provide statistics needed for the Web Interface, and its API can be easily integrated into your own projects. As the name implies, FTLDNS does this all very quickly!

Some of the statistics you can integrate include:

  • Total number of domains being blocked
  • Total number of DNS queries today
  • Total number of ads blocked today
  • Percentage of ads blocked
  • Unique domains
  • Queries forwarded (to your chosen upstream DNS server)
  • Queries cached
  • Unique clients

Access the API via telnet, the Web (admin/api.php) and Command Line (pihole -c -j). You can find out more details over here.

The Command-Line Interface

The pihole command has all the functionality necessary to fully administer the Pi-hole, without the need for the Web Interface. It's fast, user-friendly, and auditable by anyone with an understanding of bash.

Some notable features include:

You can read our Core Feature Breakdown for more information.

The Web Interface Dashboard

This optional dashboard allows you to view stats, change settings, and configure your Pi-hole. It's the power of the Command Line Interface, with none of the learning curve!

Some notable features include:

  • Mobile-friendly interface
  • Password protection
  • Detailed graphs and doughnut charts
  • Top lists of domains and clients
  • A filterable and sortable query log
  • Long Term Statistics to view data over user-defined time ranges
  • The ability to easily manage and configure Pi-hole features
  • ... and all the main features of the Command Line Interface!

There are several ways to access the dashboard:

  1. http://pi.hole/admin/ (when using Pi-hole as your DNS server)
  2. http://<IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_PI_HOLE>/admin/
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